AtarICQ 0.153 released
GokMasE
Finally we have reached the state were we feel that the program is
once again ready for a new release!
Basically, the OVL has undergone some big changes in order to work with
the latest version of the ICQ protocol, v8. As most of you probably
already know by now, Mirabilis stopped supporting v5 of the protocol in
favour for the new one, which in fact is a subprotocol of OSCAR, the
protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger. In other words, the OVL has had
a massive make over in order to get aICQ working again, and Dan
Ackerman has made a wonderful job in implementing all the necessary
changes.
In GUI, the list of changes is also quite long, and although most
things might not seem like drastical stuff, some things are worth
mentioning:
* Word wraps are recalculated if msg window is resized
* Copy function added for incoming area of msg window
* Popups are created faster (significant difference with large popups!)
* Popup icons are now also involved in 3d motion when selecting entry
* Clicking right mouse button will reverse direction of scrolling
* Double click on string in msg window text area calls for StringServer
* Right click on URLs in msg window presents alternatives via popup
* Preventing mouse shape from changing when live dragging window in
XaAES * VDI-blits used for scrolling in both message window and contact
list (much faster) * Speeded up loading/saving of user info (to HD)
quite a bit * Config loads much faster, especially if you got lots of
contacts * New shortcut: CTRL+Enter will send a msg and then close msg
window
For more details, check out aicq site, and update.txt found in
distribution zipfile.
While most things that the old client could do is already supported
now, there are a few things that might not.
1) You can't yet create new ICQ accounts
2) Changing what list a contact is on (visible/invisible) might take a
reconnect to get into effect
3) You *definitely* need to adjust the server (to login.icq.com) and
port (to 5190), else aICQ will lock up tight.
Me and Dan hope that the new release will work out alright for all of
you, but should any questions or problems occur, please do let us
know, either through this email list, or on the aICQ forum (linked to
from aICQ homepage)
Have fun, and cu all on ICQ ;)
/Joakim
at...@goteborg.utfors.se
>Subject: AtarICQ 0.153 released
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 02:02:58 GMT
>
>Hi folks,
>
>Finally we have reached the state were we feel that the program is
>once again ready for a new release!
Nice news, indeed.
>Basically, the OVL has undergone some big changes in order to work with
>the latest version of the ICQ protocol, v8.
[..]
Yes, now everything works normal again. I can send messages now. Many thanx that
you cope with this new protocol and that we Atarians still can use this popular
killer app.
[..]
Best Regards
Mille Babic